BNP vice-chairman and former minister Abdullah Al Noman passed away at a private hospital in the capital on Tuesday morning at the age of 82. His personal assistant Nurul Azim Hiru informed that Noman breathed his last around 6AM at Square Hospitals while undergoing treatment. He left behind wife, a son, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wisher ...

India and the UK have restarted free trade talks, nearly a year after negotiations were paused ahead of general elections in both countries. Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business and trade secretary, met his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal in Delhi on Monday and kicked off the two-day discussions. The talks focused on “advancing” the negotiations and ensuring that the deal was ...

Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after he admitted punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency. Amesbury, 55, who represents Runcorn and Helsby as an independent MP, pleaded guilty to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows after video footage emerged showing the confrontation. He had his Labour whip removed after the incident in Frodsham, ...

US President Donald Trump has “changed the global conversation” on Ukraine, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said, three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion. Sir Keir suggested Trump had “created an opportunity” to end the war, in a speech to an international summit on supporting Ukraine in Kyiv. The prime minister also appeared to contradict President Trump by saying ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, is set to tackle the challenging task of forming a new coalition government following his electoral victory. With his party securing over 28% of the vote, Merz defeated Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) also saw significant success with more than 20%. ...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAID personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating some 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers reviewed by Reuters. Just before midnight on Sunday US Eastern Time, all United States Agency for International Development ...

Four individuals have been sentenced to death on the charge of attempting to frame another person after killing a woman at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district in 2014. Habiganj Additional District and Session Judge AKM Kamal Uddin delivered the verdict in the absence of four convicts. The condemned convicts are Al Amin of Madanpur village, Sadar Alki, of Manayanagar, Taj ...

Renowned Banker Adnan Masud has recently joined United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) as Additional Managing Director (AMD). With over two decades of experience in top-tier global banking institutions across multiple international markets like Malaysia, UAE, India, USA & Singapore, Adnan brings a wealth of expertise in corporate and investment banking, credit, transaction banking, financial institutions and institutional banking. Prior to ...

Masato Kanda officially assumed office as the 11th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday. With nearly four decades of experience in international finance and development policy, Kanda is widely recognised for his forward-thinking leadership and his decisive interventions during periods of market volatility. During his tenure as Japan’s Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, he was instrumental ...

Achraf Hakimi scored twice and Ousmane Dembele kept up his remarkable recent form in front of goal as Paris Saint-Germain won 3-2 away to Lyon on Sunday to maintain their unbeaten record in Ligue 1 this season. All the goals were scored in the second half, with Hakimi opening the scoring on 53 minutes and Dembele doubling PSG’s lead just ...